Earlier this month, on the same day Rolling Stone magazine issued an apology for errors in a jarring story about campus rape, a small newspaper [...]
During the G20 Summit in Australia in November, fact-checking organizations from the United States and six other countries, as well as FactCheckEU, collaborated in fact [...]
The American Press Institute has received grants totaling $200,000 for additional support of API’s political fact-checking and accountability journalism program. The program began in early [...]
What happens when students with an eye on careers as politicians and government officials enter the world of journalism? This semester, students in political science [...]
As part of our efforts to expand and improve fact checking, the American Press Institute regularly presents tips on how media organizations around the country chase down [...]
When reporting on competing factual claims, journalists can call foul. Acting as a referee, journalists can analyze which statement squares with the evidence. But should [...]
A fake news story that claimed the legal drinking age in the U.S. would soon change to 25 began appearing on social media early this [...]
Bob Smietana, a religion news writer and president of the Religion Newswriters Association, has an admittedly bad habit — using his smartphone in church during [...]
The bogus tweets and photos that marred social media coverage of events like the Arab uprising and Hurricane Sandy have spurred the development of a number of fact-checking [...]
On the popular Sunday political talk shows, the talk isn’t always precise. Facts can be fuzzy, questions confusing, answers circuitous. It’s great fodder for the [...]
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